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Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg are among more than 100 technology leaders asking the White House and Congress to reform immigration rules in order to boost the ranks of tech-skilled professionals. A letter from the executives describes the current system as "outdated and inefficient," and hurting the economy.

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Robert Rubin, Hank Paulson and Tim Geithner, all former Treasury secretaries, say that inaction in Congress is hampering greater prosperity and that political change will be necessary to restructure entitlement programs. The trio participated in a panel at the 2015 Milken Institute Global Conference in Los Angeles on Monday.

Finance ministers in the eurozone say they are open to negotiating Greece's debt situation now that a new prime minister, Alexis Tsipras, has been elected. However, the finance ministers are not willing to accept a write-down, which Tsipras vowed during his campaign.

Billions of people are affected by chronic hunger, undernourishment and malnourishment, and next week's Second International Conference on Nutrition can help countries create policy frameworks to address these issues, write Jose Graziano da Silva, director-general of the Food and Agriculture Organization, and Margaret Chan, director-general of the World Health Organization.

Several IT recruiting experts say the ongoing tech-skills shortage will hurt U.S. economic growth and is likely to get worse before it gets better. "Unlike the fiscal cliff, where we are still peering over the edge, we careened over the 'IT skills cliff' some years ago as our economy digitized, mobilized and further 'technologized' and our IT skilled labor supply failed to keep up," wrote Bob Miano, CEO of executive-search firm Harvey Nash, in a paper on the issue.

The CEOs of the media companies that own the Big Four broadcast networks -- News Corp's Peter Chernin, Walt Disney Co's. Robert Iger, CBS Corp's. Leslie Moonves and NBC Universal's Jeff Zucker -- have joined with broadcasters in opposing unlicensed wireless devices in the broadcast spectrum. If the FCC allows unlicensed devices, they wrote in an open letter to FCC Chairman Kevin Martin, "interference in the digital world will cause a digital picture to freeze and become unwatchable."